Cycling facts and figures

Cycling facts and figures

3 hours of biking per week can reduce your risk of heart disease by 50%
By 2006 only 4,100 primary school kids were travelling to school by bike (that’s a decrease of 83% in 20 years)
Cycling is the quickest mode of transport in an urban environment for trips up to 6kms
Cycling speed is approximately three times that of walking speed.
If a car trip is replaced by a bike trip, then you save around 200 grams of CO2 per kilometre travelled.
If a person living 4km from work cycles to and from work throughout the year, rather than driving, over the course of the year, around 300kg of CO2 emissions are avoided.
To make a bicycle requires only a fraction of the materials and energy needed to make a car.
Twenty bicycles can be parked in the same space taken up by one car.
A cyclist can travel 10,000kms on the energy equivalent of a litre of petrol.
In Holland 30% of all trips made are by bike. It’s less than 3% in Ireland but is increasing.
The average annual rainfall in Dublin less than that of Amsterdam (804mm), a city that has a strong cycling culture.
The average number of wet days endured by everyday cyclists is less than 12% of days cycled

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